My average schoolday in middle school usually reached its pinnacle as soon as I arrived home to my marked spot on my family’s living room rug, in front of the television, and laid pronate, with my chin perched atop little fists that were propped up by my elbows. All of these articulations comprised the necessary operations to watch that day’s Total Request Live, hosted by a then-cool Carson Daly. For a rather long period in 1998, most of the top ten requested music videos during this MTV show’s airtime were directed by McG. McG was a music video director whom I remember as using saturated colors and fish-eye lenses.
He has most recently been doing a lot of producing work, but I hope he gets back into directing projects that other people want to watch and produce – unlike the botched project of the Revenge of the Nerds remake and the terrible reception of this year’s Reese Witherspoon-romcom. A couple of years ago, he made a music video for The Vapors’ 1980 single, “Turning Japanese”, that went viral on the web, as it featured another great, Kirsten Dunst.
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